EDITORIAL: In time of drought and fire 

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   Fires are raging around us and severe drought conditions are plaguing us. Some estimates are that 40,000 plus acres of forest land has been burned and we are several inches below our normal rainfall. People are being...

“Butch” Wilson Grover Bottorf – obituary

  “Butch” Wilson Grover Bottorf, 73, of Whittier, went home to be with the Lord and his beloved wife, Nancy Jane Foust Bottorf, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016 at his residence. A native of Pennsylvania and Florida and longtime resident of Jackson County, he was the son...

Georgia women killed in accident in Park

  Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers responded to a report of a single-car, motor vehicle accident on Little River Road at approximately 1:39pm on Sunday, Nov. 13. The 2007 GMC Envoy left the roadway and landed upside down in the river approximately...